Henry Ford's Offhand Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDE FGHHDDI JJKKDDL MMNNOOII| Speaking of Henry Ford's purchase of a million dollars' worth of city bonds Controller Engel said 'He talked about buying those bonds exactly as I would talk about buying a sack of peanuts ' News item | A |
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| There may be some of us who'd stop and scratch our heads awhile | B |
| Before we'd spend a million of our hardearned little pile | B |
| And some of us perhaps might want to ponder on the deal | C |
| To see the goods before we'd buy to know that they were real | C |
| I'm sure that I should hesitate and count once more my hoard | D |
| Before I'd write a check like that but not so Henry Ford | D |
| He merely yawned and stretched a bit and then said 'By the way | E |
| A million dollars' worth of bonds I guess will do today ' | - |
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| And some of us there are who might regret it all our lives | F |
| If we should do a trick like that and not consult our wives | G |
| Before we'd spend a million bones I think we'd hem and haw | H |
| And then decide to wait a day and put it up to Maw | H |
| 'm sure I shouldn't spend that much upon my own accord | D |
| I'd be afraid of what she'd say but not so Henry Ford | D |
| He just looked through the window at the autumn tints of earth | I |
| And said 'Those bonds you spoke about I'll take a million's worth ' | - |
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| And some of us perhaps before we'd part with such a bunch | J |
| Would make the salesman take us out and blow us off to lunch | J |
| We'd have him bowing down to us and tapping at our door | K |
| And make him say a dozen times the things he'd said before | K |
| I'm sure before he closed with me and captured his reward | D |
| I'd make him work a month or two but not so Henry Ford | D |
| He merely said the while he flicked from off his coat a speck | L |
| 'Send up a million dollars' worth I'll write you out a check ' | - |
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| Who knows but what he thought about the song birds on the farm | M |
| And looked away as though to see the trees in autumn's charm | M |
| Perhaps he saw the pumpkins ripe and fodder in the shock | N |
| And watched a little feller who was driving home the stock | N |
| While the agent's heart was beating he was calm as he could be | O |
| But perhaps he saw a little boy with patches on his knee | O |
| Years and miles away from business in the town that gave him birth | I |
| Who never dreamed he'd buy of bonds a million dollars' worth | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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